Olafur Eliasson

One of the first things that I saw during the trip to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston was this interactive piece made by Olafur Eliasson named “The collectivity project.” This artwork was started in 2005 and has been in various locations. This project has a very child like feeling to it since it is made out of legos and everyone played with legos when they were children. I very much like the whole vibe of this interactive work because it reminded me of when I was younger. While researching this project I saw numerous pictures of it and they are all so different from each other since the project is made so that you can build it, take away, or add to previous things that were already there. When we arrived there were three tables, the two on the side were already started and they were both very different from each other, the middle table held a plethora of legos of all…

Rosa Bonheur and Olafur Eliasson are two completely different types of artists but yet have similarities in their admiration for the elements of the natural world. Both artists had successful business art careers and represented their convictions as activists. We will discuss and summarize who these artists symbolize by discovering what sparked their interest to pursue art, the different styles and types of art, how they conducted their art careers, how they marketed their works, and how they…

Born in 1967, Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic contemporary artist whose works have been recognised and exhibited worldwide. Growing up in Copenhagen with separated Icelandic parents, he showed interest in art from a young age, following his artist father to their family home in Iceland each summer. Eliasson had his first solo show very young, at 15, exhibiting drawings at a small gallery in Denmark. He attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1989 to 1995, and since then has had…

understanding of Olafur Eliasson work. Getlein talks about seven key visual elements; lines, shape, light, color, texture and pattern, space, time and motion. In the book; Living with Art, each element is broken down into sub categories, for easier understanding. Lines according to Getlein; “Strictly defined, a line is…

Olafur Eliasson is an Icelandic installation artist who works with light and the spaces in which his installations reside. In 1967, he was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and raised in Iceland. The desolate northern landscape of his childhood had developed his artistic sensibilities and style, giving him a keen appreciation for the changing drama of natural light. He began his career selling lamps, called Little Suns, to poor people who had little access to electricity in Africa. Eliasson wanted…

The colors provided in any work of art are totally to the discretion of the one constructing it. In regards to such important element, the colors that always get my attention are: green, orange and purple. We all know that primary colors are: blue, red and green. I believe with much legality as blue as the sky, red is the color of blood and green the color of nature. From these many other secondary colors are formed that are widely used among artist and painters. In regards to Olafur Eliasson’s…